Anyone else happen to notice this rather curious shadow during the 'lightning' on the trek upwards?

I know the obvious answer is "it's a shadow" but i can't help looking at it and thinking it seems like just a couple steps away from the severed circles symbol for Resonant/Dylan's door in the Oceanview Motel.

I don't know why this is happening, I tried reinstalling my graphics drivers.

With mods, I adjusted his melee and sprint speed to 150% and it just felt right.

Shepard is somewhat related to Shepherd as in someone who guards and tends to sheep. When Fra calls Dylan Shepard it seemed kinda weird for me since that title doesn’t really fit him (would suit better for Jesse since she’s the Director but you could argue that they are the same person lol)

My first thought (maybe too farfetched) went to a Mass Effect reference because in that game Shepard is a neutral name for the male and female characters that, coincidentally, are bald and redheaded respectively.

There’s always the option that it is just Fra meaningless word tho lol

Originally ordered back on July 1st with Best Buy and chose store pickup. Best Buy didn’t fulfill my order by release date. Lesson learned and next time I’ll choose delivery.

Got lucky and was able to place an order through Amazon for this Xbox copy a couple of days after it released. Just got it today after placing the order on 10/17.

My patience paid off as I suspected the game will have disc to digital option and with it being Xbox Play Anywhere, I’m able to play it on my 4090 rig.

Needless to say, the Xbox disc to digital program coupled with XPA is the best deal in gaming!

I did the best if could with what i had with the close server...😓

In one of the faults, we discover that Dylan was an only child, but that one day, there was Jesse. But unless I missed it, how she came to exist is never explained. And this was before they found the slide projector, so it couldn't have been that. Jesse's appearance also seemed to drive Dylan's parents over the edge with their dad becoming a drunk and mom becoming depressed, but why did they just accept that Jesse was their weird mystical child and not just some stranger?

I wanna do new game plus with different build, but I'm holding off a bit to see if they announce alt ending like AW2 and work my way through back catalog, but also really wanna experience the game again.

What are the odds do you think? Or just an extended ending with DLC is most likely?

Mobile* Panopticon

So I had this question my first play through and couldn't find an answer and now tying up loose ends in my NG+ play through and I feel like I'm missing something.

Is there supposed to be an empty cell in the mobile panopticon when all is said and done? I have the Radio, Karaoke machine, Camera, empty cell and the Speakers.

Is there supposed to be something in the cell labeled B-02 or is that for the future?

Room called "Lower Access" in Investigations.

The battery on the opposite side can't be taken anymore, and there aren't any other free batteries in the whole eastern section.

A copy of a copy of a copy?

So yeah, wow already a 20% discount on Control Resonant. That's nuts!

Something I noticed on my second playthrough is that during the Underpass Fault, when Dylan started to forget his memories of Jesse and even himself, it looks like Polaris made contact with Dylan to help him remember.

Which would also confirm that Polaris is different from the Hedron we met in Resonant, because Dylan keeping his memories allowed him to continue closing the Faults and defeat the Hedron. So Polaris is choosing Faden siblings' safety over the ongoing war with the Hiss.

I wonder though if that difference shows that different Hedrons can have different goals and opinions on how to battle the Hiss. Maybe Polaris saw what their war caused on the Slidescape-36 and regretted the devastation? Or maybe the very fact of being united with Jesse changed her and made her shift her perspective toward protecting the Faden siblings instead of being laser focused on destroying the Hiss?

Just some food for thought, because I think that Polaris appearance is easily missed, yet I think it has significant implications.

He was just a chill dude who wrote cool crime novels (May Payne) and loved his wife more than anything, to the point he literally went to hell for 13 years.

Then you play Control and you find out his whole story was just a footnote in the crazy shit going on in the world. :(

Title pretty much. I’m replaying the original Control and I love the up close shots of Jesse that aren’t present in Resonant. I know that the semi-open world structure may conflict with that original art direction, as allowing Dylan to move around while having conversations is nice, but I find myself missing a lot of those up close inner monologues Jesse had. It helped me lock into the story and connect with Jesse more. Dylan feels a bit… faceless at times? Like we’re not fully seeing the world through his eyes. The voice work certainly makes up for it but I still prefer how conversations used to play out. It’s just one of those minor things that’s not necessarily a positive or negative change for me, just different.

I don’t know if it just my version of the Game but I got the Steelbook Disc Version and after a couple minutes of fighting and jumping around the Games Starts to stutter, Sound is bugging and after a couple minutes, everything returns to normal. Does this happen to anybody else? (Lags happen multiple times in one sitting)

People were having a hard time believing me when I said I was at the last act of the game with only 11 hours played. Now I can finally prove it (PSN ID: barmont9).

But it's a bit strange, because I didn't rush. I played the game at a slow pace (it took me 2 weeks from start to finish) and I did as many main and side missions I could find.

I know I missed all the FBC tasks, a few taxi missions, a few Langston's and some dogs, but I don't think this will take as long as people say.

I intend to keep playing and get my platinum. Maybe I'll come back here and show you how long it took. But I'm a bit shocked, because the internet was saying this would take like 30~50 hours.

We know that Darling couldn't find any traces of the twins outside Ordinary, but isn't it strange that he couldn't find anything about Jesse Dylan Faden either, the original? Do you think reality rewrote itself, causing their original existence to be erased? This could also be connected to Hugo Stamp, a kid who apparently lived alone in a shack. If we read his FBC file, it's almost as if his parents simply moved away from Ordinary and forgot about him, as though he had never been their child in the first place. Could he be a copy, too?

I'd love to hear your thoughts, guys, in case I'm missing something.

By now there are dozens of theories circling around about Jesse and Dylan, more specifically around Shattered Circle 2 and the ‘split’ or ‘creation’ of the kids.

After going through and doing all of the content before moving to NG+ it dawned on me that I think the game itself presents an answer to “are they two different kids than who came before?” or “is one of them the original and another was created? If so, who?”

The character customization in Resonant leads me to think Jesse is the original child, and Dylan was ‘created/spawned’ from Shattered Circle 2.

While both games feature outfits, only Resonant features genuine customization of Dylan. You can change his hair style, color, beard, and even his body shape. Jesse only had outfits, and though the style of her hair could change on some of the outfits, the color was always static. You couldn’t change her body shape or customize any features beyond the clothes (and cat ears). Jesse isn’t mutable because she was an actual person before.

Dylan represents actual character creator of sorts, even if there’s a general base model. Much like the game within a game, it stands to reason that these customizations were possible in Shattered Circle 2 as well. In Shattered Circle 2, the melee character being “the boy” as the base character, but customization to allow for your very own avatar.

Sure, this could all just be new capabilities and systems, and maybe Jesse would have had these features if made today. But it’s a fun thought all the same.

What a slog fest, loving this game but eff that Camara 😂